Clerics

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The chosen followers of deities, clerics wielding divine power to mold the fate of the world.

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Cleric Heroes

Prerequisite: 12 Wisdom
Starting Hit Points: 8 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Die: d8
Proficiencies: You are Trained in Simple Weapons, Initiative, and Divine Magic and its Divine Defense and Divine Guidance features.
Skills: You possess the Religion skill and can select two other Skills.

Cleric Features

Deity

Select a Deity. You can speak and understand their language and make Divine Guidance attempts related to their cause.

Healer’s Touch

As part of your turn, you can spend a hero's surge to heal a living creature you touch for ¼ of your maximum hit points, and, if it is willing, push or pull it 5'.

Boon Option: Convert healing with this feature that would exceed a target's maximum hit point to Temporary Hit Points.
Boon Option: Divide this healing amongst targets in range.

Piousness

You can have two primary dreams, one of which must be your deity's creed. Whenever you make a difficult decision to delay your primary dream for your deity's dream, your DM may award you a Fortune Die. In addition, double your maximum number of Fortune Dice. However, your actions and deeds must have you on good terms with your deity in order to advance your Cleric level.

Spellcasting

You know the orisons and spells of two of your deity’s Domains as well as their Spontaneous Spells. You can Memorize a number of spells per day as indicated in The Cleric table.

Boon Options:

• Gain access to the rest of your deity's domains.
• Learn the Spontaneous Spell of one of your domains.
• Gain access to an additional Divine Domain.

The Cleric

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Level	Benefit	Hero’s Surges	Spells Per Day	Title
1	Cleric Features, Deity, Healer's Touch, Piousness, Spellcasting	4	1	Aspirant
2	Divine Destiny, Drawn to Strife	5	2	Acolyte
3	Boon, Holy Calling	5	2/1
4	Divine Destiny Feature	6	2/2	Prefect
5	Valor	6	2/2/1
6	Divine Destiny Feature	7	2/2/2	Hand
7	Boon	7	2/2/2/1
8	Divine Destiny Feature	8	2/2/2/2	Curate
9	Boon	8	2/2/2/2/1
10	Heroism	9	2/2/2/2/2

LEVEL 2 Clerics

Divine Destiny

At level two, the blessings of your deity open further to you, unlocking your divinity. Select a Divine Destiny.

Bargainer

Bargainers

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Your connection to divinity expands beyond your deity into something that straddles the realm of divine and mortal, allowing you to play the conduit for any god.

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Divine Bargainer

Your divine power begins to come from your own divinity. You no longer need to be in your deity's good graces to advance your Cleric level. In addition, choose one of the following options.

Planar Bending: Add your Wisdom modifier to damage and hit points affected with divine magic.
Boon Option: Add your Wisdom modifier to healing with divine magic.
Hardened Negotiator: Become Trained in Light and Medium Armor, Light Shields, and two Weapons of your choice.
Boon Option: Gain the benefits of the option you did not select.

Bargain Language

By concentrating for a minute, you can spend a hero's surge to bargain with a deity you are not bargaining anything from to learn a Language their followers possess. This effect lasts until you regain the hero's surge spent on this bargain.

You can only bargain a language from a deity once until you repay the debt. You can repay a language debt by performing a service to the deity's followers who speak that language, or through a similar act.

Bargain Rebuking

You learn Divine Magic's Rebuke and Sense Outsider features. In addition, by concentrating for a minute, you can spend a hero's surge to bargain with a deity you are not bargaining anything from to gain a rebuking option they offer. This effect lasts until you regain the hero's surge spent on this bargain.

You can only bargain rebuking from a particular deity once until you repay the debt. You can repay a rebuking debt by performing a deed that pleases the deity and is equivalent in power to the effectiveness of the rebuking granted.

Bargain Spell

As an action, you can spend a hero's surge to bargain with a deity you are not bargaining anything from to cast a spell from one of their domains. This spell cannot exceed the maximum spell level available to you. If you do not possess the focus or preservative required to cast this spell, the deity you bargain with can supply it for you.

You can only bargain a spell from a particular deity once until you repay the debt to them. You can repay a spell debt by performing a deed that pleases the deity and is equivalent in power to the spell they granted, and of a value equal to any focus or preservative they provided.

Unpaid Debts

When you gain a Hampering Effect from a divine defense attempt, you can attempt to push your attacker using your Divine Magic rank.

LEVEL 4 Bargainer

Bargain Metamagic

You can spend a hero's surge to bargain with a deity you are not bargaining anything from to empower a spell you cast. Choose from one of the following effects:

Enlarge Spell: The spell’s range and area aspects are doubled
Extend Spell: You make the duration of the spell Permanent, provided it's default duration is 10 minutes or more. This extension does not alter concentration requirements.
Heighten Spell: The spell’s level is increased by two, or your effective caster level by four
Maximize Spell: The spell’s dice are maximized
This feature can be used in conjunction with Bargain Spell by spending two hero's surges simultaneously. You can only bargain metamagic from a particular deity once until you repay the debt. You can repay a metamagic debt by performing a deed that pleases the deity and is equivalent to the spell enhancement.

LEVEL 6 Bargainer

Bargain Boon

When you memorize spells, you can spend a hero's surge to bargain with a deity you are not bargaining anything from to gain a feature a boon would grant.

You can only make one boon bargain. Its effects and the hero's surge's reservation last until you repay the debt. You can repay a boon debt to the deity you bargained it from by performing a deed that pleases them and is equivalent in influence to the boon and the length of time you held it.
Boon Option: End this debt and gain the bargained boon option permanently.

LEVEL 8 Bargainer

Bargain Feature

After spending a day bargaining with a deity you are not bargaining anything from, you can spend a hero's surge to gain a class feature from this or another class.

You can only make one feature bargain. Its effects and the hero's surge's reservation last until you repay the debt. You can repay a feature debt to the deity you bargained it from by performing a deed that greatly pleases the deity and is equivalent in influence to the feature and the length of time you held it.
Boon Option: After repaying this debt, gain the bargained feature option permanently.

Priest

Priests

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The most beloved of your deity, you are a revered child blessed with your patron's greatest might.

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Conduit of the Gods

You add your Wisdom modifier to damage, healing, and hit points affected with divine magic and gain access to all your deity's domains.

Boon Option: Add your Charisma modifier to healing with divine magic.

Divine Sanction

You become Adept in Divine Magic. In addition, you can make Divine Guidance attempts on any subject, whether or not it is related to your deity's cause.

Healing Word

Your Healer’s Touch feature gains a range of 30’

Inspiring Orisons

Orisons you cast on allies allow them to move 5'

Rebuke

You gain Divine Magic's Rebuke and Sense Outsider features and all rebuking options offered by your deity.

Boon Option: When a creature you can rebuke deals damage to you, it takes true damage equal to your Wisdom modifier.

LEVEL 4 Priest

Divine Censure

As a Hampering Effect when you make a defense attempt, you can add your Wisdom modifier to the damage of the next attack against your attacker before the end of its next turn

Holy Restoration

You learn Restoration as a Spontaneous Spell.

LEVEL 6 Priest

Touched with Divinity

You can cast any Divine Spontaneous spell you know once per day without the use of a spell slot.

LEVEL 8 Priest

Greater Rebuking

You gain Reliability on Divine Magic rebuke and sense outsider attempts against creatures with less hit points than your maximum

Warpriest

Warpriests

You are the right hand of your deity, pursuing their ends with both spell and fist.
Prerequisite: 12 Strength or 12 Dexterity

Divine Sanction

You gain the Endurance skill and become Trained in Light and Medium Armor, Bucklers and Light and Heavy Shields, and your deity's Favored Weapon's weapon group.

Exalted Combat

Once per turn when you hit with an attack with a weapon of your deity’s Favored Weapon group, you can roll the damage dice for both the weapon and an orison you know. After doing so, you can choose to deal the weapon damage or deliver the orison.

While in concentrating on a Divine spell, you can use this feature without sacrificing your weapon's damage dice.
Boon Option: While concentrating on a Divine spell, when you have limited success on a weapon attack you can deal half your weapon's damage as a Hampering Effect.

Rebuke

You gain Divine Magic's Rebuke and Sense Outsider features and a rebuking option offered by your deity.

Boon Option: Gain all your deity's rebuking options.

Tough Love

You can push your Healer's Touch target 5'

LEVEL 4 Warpriest

Redemption

When you heal an ally, choose one of the following effects:

• Regain hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier.
• Transfer one effect afflicting your ally that you are aware of to yourself.

Boon Option: Gain the option to direct bonus healing from this feature to an adjacent creature instead of yourself.

LEVEL 6 Warpriest

Exalted Caster

You gain the option to deliver a Divine spell with your Exalted Combat feature

Spiritual Sanction

You can spend a hero's surge on a Divine spell you would have lost concentration on (due to duration, disruption, unconsciousness, or death) to maintain its concentration effect until the end of combat or similar peril

LEVEL 8 Warpriest

Greater Spellcasting

Add your Wisdom modifier to damage and hit points affected with Divine magic.

Drawn to Strife

When you see an ally within 30' take damage, you can allow yourself to be pulled 5' toward them.

LEVEL 3 Clerics

Holy Calling

As words of your clerical deeds spread, you become more recognizable. Choose one of the following options.

Blasphemer: Double your Reknown with clerics of another deity.
Friar: Double your Reknown with people of your faith.
Parishioner: Double your Reknown while within the hallowed grounds of your deity.
Boon Option: Select an additional Holy Calling.